From: Tom Cloyd <tomcloyd@...>
Date: 2008-03-11T17:11:17+09:00
Subject: Re: The Ruby Programming Language - what are your thoughts?

Clifford Heath wrote:
> James Gray wrote:
>> On Mar 9, 2008, at 7:46 PM, Clifford Heath wrote:
>>> I think there's real scope for a good API reference book, preferably
>>> in two volumes; core classes (String up to Net::) and others (RexML,
>> This request confuses me.  The Net::* libraries are part of the  
>> standard library, no Ruby's core.
>
> I don't think that folk wanting a reference care whether something's
> defined as core or standard; what they want is a reference where the
> stuff you look up often isn't completely drowned in stuff you don't.
> I know that differs by the individual, but a useful subset isn't hard
> to choose. Just look at ruby-doc.org if you don't see  the problem.
>
>
This is absolutely true, for me - an amateur trying to learn ruby in 
stolen moments. I'm continually looking up stuff in wrong place. Core? 
Standard? Huh? I have yet to really sort that out. Don't have the time. 
I love the easy lookup available in Arachno Ruby's IDE, but now that I'm 
in Linux, I don't yet have a substitute. This lookup stuff is definitely 
NOT yet "principal of least surprise", not for dolts like me, anyway. 
Perhaps in my next life...

t.

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